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Prototype Satellite Launched on SpaceX Rocket Will Try to Clean Up Space Junk
On the whole, space is mostly empty, but the space around the Earth is anything but. Earth’s orbit is full of thousands of satellites, pieces of debris, and junk from the thousands of rocket launches over the past few decades. This presents a serious problem for future satellites: Any one of them could be randomly taken out by a flying piece of space junk.
The only way to solve this problem is to clean up space, but that’s easier said than done. Plenty of organizations, including NASA and the Chinese and Japanese space agencies, have developed their own prototype space debris catchers. On Monday, one such debris catcher, named RemoveDEBRIS, was launched into space and will undergo testing over the next few weeks.
On the whole, space is mostly empty, but the space around the Earth is anything but. Earth’s orbit is full of thousands of satellites, pieces of debris, and junk from the thousands of rocket launches over the past few decades. This presents a serious problem for future satellites: Any one of them could be randomly taken out by a flying piece of space junk.
The only way to solve this problem is to clean up space, but that’s easier said than done. Plenty of organizations, including NASA and the Chinese and Japanese space agencies, have developed their own prototype space debris catchers. On Monday, one such debris catcher, named RemoveDEBRIS, was launched into space and will undergo testing over the next few weeks.
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NASA Wants to Send Swarms of Robot Bees to Mars. For Exploration, of Course
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NASA Wants to Send Swarms of Robot Bees to Mars. For Exploration, of Course
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NASA Wants to Send Swarms of Robot Bees to Mars. For Exploration, of Course
Before humans can set foot on the surface of Mars, robots like the Curiosity Rover have been doing an exhaustive reconnaissance job for us. But now NASA has a new idea for sending over more mechanical explorers - and it's weird, slightly terri
A New State of Quantum Matter Has Been Found in a Material Scientists Thought Was All Chaos
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A New State of Quantum Matter Has Been Found in a Material Scientists Thought Was All Chaos
Experiments carried out on a complex arrangement of magnetic particles have identified a completely new state of matter, and it can only be explained if scientists turn to quantum physics. The messy structures behind the research show strange properties that…
New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience
A technique based on genetic bar codes can easily map the connections of individual brain cells in unprecedented numbers. Unexpected complexity in the visual system is only the first secret it has revealed.
A technique based on genetic bar codes can easily map the connections of individual brain cells in unprecedented numbers. Unexpected complexity in the visual system is only the first secret it has revealed.
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Comparing the Sizes of Microorganisms Up to 1mm
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The Last Great Martin Furnace
On March 23rd, 2018, Russia's last large Martin furnace stopped its production. Now it's possible to observe steel production of such a scale only in pictures. That’s why we assigned our photographer to travel there and take pictures of the last steel heating, and now we would like to share the photos with you. Update: now with explanations!
On March 23rd, 2018, Russia's last large Martin furnace stopped its production. Now it's possible to observe steel production of such a scale only in pictures. That’s why we assigned our photographer to travel there and take pictures of the last steel heating, and now we would like to share the photos with you. Update: now with explanations!
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The Last Great Martin Furnace
On March 23rd, 2018, Russia`s last large Martin furnace stopped its production. Now it`s possible to observe steel production of such a…
Scientists Just Grew a Whole Salad in Antarctica, Without Any Daylight or Soil
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Scientists Just Grew a Whole Salad in Antarctica, Without Any Daylight or Soil
If we're ever going to make the long trip to Mars and then colonise the place, we'll need a lot of food. If we can grow our own, even better.
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There's Evidence Humans Didn't Actually See Blue Until Modern Times
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There's Evidence Humans Didn't Actually See Blue Until Modern Times
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There's Evidence Humans Didn't Actually See Blue Until Modern Times
Human vision is incredible - most of us are capable of seeing around 1 million colours, and yet we still don't really know if all of us perceive these colours in the same way.
Scientists Think Cockroach Milk Could Be The Next Superfood, And We Wish We Were Kidding
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Scientists Think Cockroach Milk Could Be The Next Superfood, And We Wish We Were Kidding
An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. The reason? It's more than four times as nutritious as cow's milk and the researchers think it could be the key to feeding our growing population…
Some interesting facts about dark matter
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New Study Could Provide The Best Explanation For Dark Matter to Date
Physicists trying to understand the fundamental structure of nature rely on consistent theoretical frameworks that can explain what we see and simultaneously make predictions that we can test.
Physicists Just Discovered an Entirely New Type of Superconductivity
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Physicists Just Discovered an Entirely New Type of Superconductivity
"No one thought this was possible in solid materials."
You Need to See This NASA Video of Nearly 140 Years of Temperature Rises
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You Need to See This NASA Video of Nearly 140 Years of Temperature Rises
When you're one tiny person living amongst 7.6 billion people on a small planet in just one Solar System in just one of billions of galaxies in the Universe - sure, it may be difficult to grasp the level of climate change affecting Earth right now.
New Qubit Now Works without Breaks
An international group of scientists from Russia, the United Kingdom, and Germany have presented an alternative qubit design which can be used to build a quantum computer. Nano-wires made of superconductors are the design’s main elements. In the first experiments, the new superconductor qubit proved to be no worse than the traditional one built on Josephson junctions.
An international group of scientists from Russia, the United Kingdom, and Germany have presented an alternative qubit design which can be used to build a quantum computer. Nano-wires made of superconductors are the design’s main elements. In the first experiments, the new superconductor qubit proved to be no worse than the traditional one built on Josephson junctions.
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New Qubit Now Works without Breaks
A universal design for superconducting qubits has been created.
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Tour of the Moon in 4K
Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain.
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Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain.
Music Provided By Killer Tracks: "Never Looking Back" - Frederick Wiedmann. "Flying over Turmoil" - Benjamin Krause & Scott Goodman.
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Distortions in Ancient Light Reveal Strands in Cosmic Web
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Distortions in Ancient Light Reveal Strands in Cosmic Web
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe’s earliest light to map huge tubelike structures invisible to our eyes – known as filaments – that serve as superhighways for delivering matter to dense hubs such as galaxy clusters.…
We Could Detect Black Hole Collisions All The Time With This Amazing New Method
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We Could Detect Black Hole Collisions All The Time With This Amazing New Method
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Low 3-D Flyover of Jupiter’s North Pole in Infrared
In this animation the viewer is taken low over Jupiter’s north pole to illustrate the 3-D aspects of the region’s central cyclone and the eight cyclones that encircle it.
The movie utilizes imagery derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission during its fourth pass over the massive planet. Infrared cameras are used to sense the temperature of Jupiter’s atmosphere and provide insight into how the powerful cyclones at Jupiter's poles work. In the animation, the yellow areas are warmer (or deeper into Jupiter’s atmosphere) and the dark areas are colder (or higher up in Jupiter’s atmosphere). In this picture the highest “brightness temperature” is around 260K (about -13°C) and the lowest around 190K (about -83°C). The “brightness temperature” is a measurement of the radiance, at 5 µm, traveling upward from the top of the atmosphere towards Juno, expressed in units of temperature.
In this animation the viewer is taken low over Jupiter’s north pole to illustrate the 3-D aspects of the region’s central cyclone and the eight cyclones that encircle it.
The movie utilizes imagery derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission during its fourth pass over the massive planet. Infrared cameras are used to sense the temperature of Jupiter’s atmosphere and provide insight into how the powerful cyclones at Jupiter's poles work. In the animation, the yellow areas are warmer (or deeper into Jupiter’s atmosphere) and the dark areas are colder (or higher up in Jupiter’s atmosphere). In this picture the highest “brightness temperature” is around 260K (about -13°C) and the lowest around 190K (about -83°C). The “brightness temperature” is a measurement of the radiance, at 5 µm, traveling upward from the top of the atmosphere towards Juno, expressed in units of temperature.
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Scientists Find a Crucial New Role For DNA We Once Considered Junk
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Scientists Find a Crucial New Role For DNA We Once Considered Junk
Researchers have determined how satellite DNA, considered to be "junk DNA", plays a crucial role in holding the genome together. Their findings, published recently in the journal eLife, indicate that this genetic "junk" performs the vital function of ensuring…
People Struggle to Pass This Simple "Gorilla Test" And It Could Explain Why We Still Haven't Found Aliens
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People Struggle to Pass This Simple "Gorilla Test" And It Could Explain Why We Still Haven't Found Aliens
Where the heck are all the aliens? According to a pair of psychologists, it might be us, not them - we could be missing obvious signs of non-terrestrial civilisations out there.
Japan Just Found a Huge Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries
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Japan Just Found a Huge Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries
Researchers have found a deposit of rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan that could supply the world for centuries, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday, says the deposit contains 16 million tons of the valuable…